Dinaya Waeyaert is a Belgian artist based in Brussels whose medium of choice is photography, shot on 35mm and medium format film. She has recently been printing her images manually in a color photo darkroom. Her photographic work is filled with snapshots, portraits and self portraits complemented with details of the city. Dinaya Waeyaert interprets her work as her way of highlighting the importance of lesbian visibility, which she achieves by capturing their stories. Her art is like a visual diary, documentary, poetic and personal, in which she preserves memories of moments filled with love and sensitivity. She has always turned her camera to capture the people around her, her photographs becoming a witness to her souvenirs, like her own family album.
‘I’ve always loved to photograph the people around me. This might have something to do with how I grew up. Being aware of my own sexuality at a very young age made me wonder if there were others like me. Secretly I have always been looking for them; the ones that feel like me, act like me and who are in search for each other too. From the moment I found them I started capturing their existence.’
After completing her studies in Visual Arts in Ghent in 2018, Dinaya Waeyaert self-published her first book Personal Collection. In 2021, she published Come Closer with Dienacht Publishing. Since 2015 she has exhibited both nationally and internationally, notably at Enfant Sauvage Brussels, Cloud Gallery in Amsterdam, Tique Art Space during Antwerp Art and Brussels Gallery Weekend. She was nominated for the Kassel Dummy Award and participated in the Soirée Belge of Recyclart at Arles Photo. Her work was included in numerous publications, such as Vice, i-D UK and De Standaard.
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